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6th WSSET Innovation Awards 2022 Winners announced

September 2022

Winners of the 6th WSSET Innovation Awards 2022 were announced at the SET2022 gala dinner held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #13

April 2022

The next WSSET lectures will be on Wednesday 27 April 2022 at 09:00 BST on Zoom featuring Professor Wen Liu of the University of Science and Technology of China speaking about ‘Photoelectric Agriculture contributes to Carbon Neutralization and Chinese Rural Revitalization’ ....

View WSSET Lectures on YouTube

January 2022

The WSSET online lectures from Wednesday 26 January are now available to watch on the WSSET YouTube channel. Listen to Professor Yulong Ding from University of Birmingham talk about ‘Phase Change Materials (PCMs) based Technologies for Heating and Cooling Decarbonisation’ ....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #12

January 2022

The WSSET lectures will resume on Wednesday 26 January 2022 at 09:00 GMT on Zoom. Professor Yulong Ding from University of Birmingham, UK, will talk about ‘Phase Change Materials (PCMs) based Technologies for Heating and Cooling Decarbonisation’....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #11

September 2021

The WSSET lectures will resume on Wednesday 22 September 2021 at 09:00 BST on Zoom. Professor Chi-Hwa Wang of National University of Singapore will talk on’ Conversion of waste to energy and resource’....

SET Conference - Further Postponement

March 2021

Every year since 2002, we look forward to SET conference. We look forward to the presentations, discussions, meetings and catching up with friends and colleagues from around the world. Unfortunately, the global outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) means that we had to cancel SET2020 last year and this year we have made another very difficult decision to postpone SET conference to August 2022.....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #8

March 2021

The next in the series of on-line lectures will be on Wednesday 21 April 2021 at 9am BST (British Summer Time) on Zoom. Professor Ashok Pandey from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research will speak about ‘Microalgal cultivation on waste waters for energy and environmental sustainability’....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #7

January 2021

The first on-line lecture for 2021 will be held on Thursday 18 February 2021 at 9am (GMT) on Zoom: Professor Peter Lund of Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, will speak on ‘Storage for solar PV....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #6

December 2020

The sixth WSSET lecture and the last for 2020 will be on Friday 18th December at 9am GMT. Professor Ruzhu Wang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, will start with ‘Industry heat pumps with networked waste heat utilization’....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #5

November 2020

By popular demand, WSSET are pleased to announce that the series of on-line lectures will be continuing and the next lecture will be on Thursday 26th November at 9am GMT. Professor Yuri Aristov of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (BIC), Novosibirsk, Russia, starts with ....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #4

October 2020

The fourth and final in the current series of WSSET online lectures will be on Wednesday 28th October at 9am GMT starting with Professor Xudong Zhao of the University of Hull, UK, with his lecture entitled ‘Key technologies for a novel solar driven heating system’....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #3

September 2020

The third in the series of WSSET online lectures will be on now Thursday 24th September at 9am BST starting with Professor Armando Oliveira from the University of Porto, Portugal, and his lecture entitled 'Nearly zero energy buildings: still trying after all these years'....

WSSET Online Lecture Series #2

August 2020

WSSET present two lectures on Thursday27 August at 9am BST starting with Professor K. Srinivas Reddy from IIT Madras, India speaking on 'Design-Development-Demonstration-Deployment (4D) of concentrating solar power technologies'....

WSSET Online Lecture Series

July 2020

WSSET present a new series of online lectures starting on Friday 31 July with Professor Li Shao from the University of Reading with Thermal Performance of Urban Trees: recent findings....

SET2020 Terry Payne Travel Award

January 2020

We are pleased to announce that Professor Terry Payne will provide a conference travel grant to eight (8) FULL-TIME postgraduate students (PhD) who can demonstrate academic excellence through the quality of their research...

Innovative Thermal Energy Storage Chain (ChainStore)

November 2019

Academics at the University of Nottingham, UK, have developed a new thermal energy technology for a wide range of applications including buildings, greenhouses, cold storage and industrial processes...

Visit the WSSET YouTube Channel

June 2019

Visit the WSSET YouTube Channel...

2019 Researcher Links Workshop on Investigation of the Impact of Occupant Behaviour on Building Performance in the UK and China

June 2019

In order to tackle the climate change challenge and to meet worldwide goals of energy reduction in buildings...

New concept for electric power energy storage

May 2019

Academics have patented a new concept for electric energy storage using gravity....

SET2019: Extension of Deadlines

May 2019

The deadline for abstracts to SET2019 has been extended to Friday June 28th...

Gravity Storage System Using Earth Materials (EarthPumpStore)

May 2019

Academics have patented new concepts on electric power energy storage using gravity...

Honorary President of WSSET

April 2019

We are proud to announce that The Right Honourable, The Lord Prescott has agreed to become Honorary President of WSSET...

‘Green’ and edible cling film and food packaging made from plants

November 2018

University of Nottingham researchers have developed 100 percent biodegradable and edible food packaging made from plant carbohydrates and proteins...